ZkRansomware: Proof-Of-Data Recoverability and Multi-Round Game Theoretic Modeling of Ransomware Decisions

Ransomware is still one of the most serious cybersecurity threats. Victims often pay but fail to regain access to their data, while also facing the danger of losing data privacy. These uncertainties heavily shape the attacker-victim dynamics in decision-making. In this paper, we introduce and...